The Sexiest Movie-Star Men of All Time

The Sexiest Movie-Star Men of All Time

1940s: Dana Andrews

Birthday: January 1, 1909

Notable films:Laura and The Best Years of Our Life

Why we love him: Besides his handsome good looks, Andrews was one of the first movie stars to vocally oppose the practice of women doing nude scenes just to get a role. Standing up for women? Very sexy.

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1950s: William Holden

Birthday: April 17, 1918

Notable films:Sunset Boulevard, Stalag 17 and Sabrina

Why we love him: What is it about men with clefts in their chins that we find so undeniably attractive? Any man who can hold his own in terms of beauty when starring next to the gorgeous Audrey Hepburn deserves a spot on this list.

1960s: Sir Sean Connery

Why we love him: He’s the original Bond—James Bond. Men don’t get much more debonair than that. And let’s not forget that he was knighted in 2000.

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1970s: Robert Redford

Birthday: August 18, 1936

Notable films:The Way We Were, The Sting, All the President’s Men

Why we love him: Barbra Streisand’s Katie fell in love with Redford’s Hubbell in The Way We Were, and after seeing him smile in that white military uniform, we were smitten too.

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1980s: Harrison Ford

Birthday: July 13, 1942

Where to catch him: The Star Wars and Indiana Jones series, Blade Runner and The Fugitive

Why we love him: Ford got his big break in Hollywood when George Lucas cast him to play Han Solo in Star Wars in the ’70s. But it wasn’t until the ’80s—and Indiana Jones—that he became the ruggedly sexy everyman we loved to love.

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1990s: Denzel Washington

Birthday: December 28, 1954

Notable films:Malcolm X, Philadelphia and Training Day

Why we love him: When People magazine chose Washington as the Sexiest Man Alive in 1996, they said this about him: “Washington’s is not the love-me-because-I’m-beautiful narcissism of an Antonio Banderas, the knowing flirtiness of Brad Pitt. No, at 41, the preacher’s son from Mount Vernon, N.Y., is the hunk you hope would move next door, just so you’d get to watch him mow the lawn with his shirt off.” We couldn’t agree more.

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2000s: George Clooney

Birthday: May 6, 1961

Notable films:Ocean’s 11-13, O Brother, Where Art Thou? and Syriana

Why we love him: We had a hard time determining whether George Clooney, Daniel Craig or Brad Pitt should garner the Sexiest Movie-Star Man of Today title, but in the end we decided Clooney embodied the ultimate bachelor. He refuses to get married, lives the quintessential playboy life and seemingly gets sexier every year.